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Examples

  • The real heart of the flick is the confusing relationship between the confident, “Snowflake Queen”, high school beauty Jennifer (Megan Fox) and her best friend, the awkward, insecure, mousy Anita, but who everyone calls Needy (Amanda Seyfried).

    Matt got real close to JENNIFER’S BODY but was he turned on or off? | Obsessed With Film 2009

  • Her best friend Anita, aka Needy (Seyfried) is the polar opposite.

    Mania News Feed 2009

  • In case you're wondering and before someone asks, the song I used above is called Needy Girl by Chromeo.

    Anime Nano! 2009

  • With unemployment still high and a recession eating away at family incomes, the managers of The Seattle Times Fund For The Needy were a little apprehensive about how generous readers would be this year - especially after last year's record-breaking fund drive.

    The Seattle Times 2009

  • And she said "I was the matter and Where are you "I tried to be polite like you said But she made me take off my clothes right there in the Phone booth and a cop came by and asked me "Who the hell do you think you are SUPERMAN " and I told him no but I was talking to a really nice poor woman called Needy Edy and by the time I was frisked and cuffed and let go the phone was still hanging there but this new other meaner french gil named Francis DePancis was on and she just kept telling me to Obey her I didnt like her so I went back home to the basement. ... new revised stupid entry I really didnt mean to subject you to two of thes Have a secound bowl of post toasties... on me,,, oops thats what that last girl said

    Always Be Nice on the Phone 2006

  • Jennifer is the dominant one in the relationship, and "Needy" (short for "Anita" and, hello, long on the heavy-handed) is the classic Good Girl friend.

    Rachel Simmons: Jennifer's Body: Best Friends Forever, Covered in Blood 2009

  • That makes me VERY happy in a VERY selfish though, hopefully not "Needy" way!

    Best Reviewed Movies of the Decade | /Film 2009

  • "Needy," she told me -- of the one I'd picked -- as if to dissuade me, but his weakness only made me love him more.

    Philip Galanes: This One's For Martha 2008

  • I have noticed that when I type my nom de guerre, more often than not the fine motor skills required to double the D slip up and instead render it "Needy," which I find a bit sobering -- there being, after all, no such thing as a typographical error.

    Saturday Morning Gazette 2005

  • She didn’t say anything, as she realized she was pulling what Dee called a Needy Greedy, and had been for days.

    Primal Instincts Susan Sizemore 2010

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